
Replication material for Duque, Marina G. “Recognizing International Status: A Relational Approach.” International Studies Quarterly.

The replication material contains all original data and R code used in the analysis. Run the code in the order provided (1 Diplomatic Network Setup.R first, and so on). Each .R file produces .csv files that will be used in the next step.

Below is where to find the code used to produce the tables and figures from both the article and the online appendix:

3 Descriptive Statistics.R

Table A1. Network Statistics
Table A2. Embassies Opened and Closed Relative to the Previous Period (1975-2010)
Table A3. New Embassies Received by Country (1995-2005)
Table A4. Degree Distribution
Table A5. Power Law Tests (2005)
Table A6. Distributions of Normalized Centrality Measures (2005)
Table A7. Correlations Between Normalized Centrality Measures (2005)
Figure A1. Degree and Eigenvector Centrality Rankings (2005)
Figure A2. Hub and Authority Scores (2005)
Figure 2. Relationship between Material Capability and Degree Centrality (2005)

4 Data Preprocessing.R

Table A9. State-Level Variable Distributions for Model 1 (2000)
Table A10. Correlation Matrix for State-Level Variables in Model 1 (2000)

5a TERGM Main Results.R

Figure 3. Temporal Exponential Random Graph Model of Diplomatic Ties for 1995-2005
Table 3. Change in Odds of Tie from Typical Change in Variable
Figure A3. Goodness-of-Fit of the TERGM of Diplomatic Ties for 1995-2005 (Model 1)
Table A12. Degeneracy Checks for the TERGM of Diplomatic Ties for 1995-2005 (Model 1)
Table A13. Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models of Diplomatic Ties for 1995-2005 (Robustness Checks)
Table A15. Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models of Diplomatic Ties for 1995-2005 (Robustness Checks)

5b TERGM Robustness Checks.R

Table A14. Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models of Diplomatic Ties (Robustness Checks)



The following figure was made using Gephi (https://gephi.org/):
Figure 1. Diplomatic Network in 2005

